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Ahaha holy poo poo. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Question id like to put forth to my fellow readers. Would you say that baam hasnt aged physically between act 1 and 2? his bearing shows alot of mental change. But looking back, besides length of hair, his height and build remains consisten to even his flash backs to pretower. Is it just me? (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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Jun 21, 2012 11:10
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Spellcheck posted:Question id like to put forth to my fellow readers. Would you say that baam hasnt aged physically between act 1 and 2? his bearing shows alot of mental change. But looking back, besides length of hair, his height and build remains consisten to even his flash backs to pretower. Is it just me? It's not just you, I'm seeing it too. Isn't this meant to be 5 years later? I imagine it's due to his shinsoo abilities. Rankers are downright immortal, aging wise.
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Jun 21, 2012 17:30
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I'm so loving close to staking a dead or alive bounty on that Crazy dude's head. No seriously, how have they not kicked this creepy disgusting asswipe off already? Excellent chapter apart from that (which makes it all the worse somehow...).
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Jun 21, 2012 17:44
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HenryEx posted:I'm so loving close to staking a dead or alive bounty on that Crazy dude's head. This is exactly why I've been reading the version translated by another guy that gets put on imgur. A little harder to read, and honestly I prefer the names of The Company's translation (Viole, Lurker, Rapdevil are all better than Violet, Locker and Lobdevil). But my GOD do all those terrible little translator notes piss me off. What's so kinky about putting your fingers in a girl's mouth anyway?
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Jun 21, 2012 18:16
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Slime posted:What's so kinky about putting your fingers in a girl's mouth anyway? I think its the way They drew the saliva. But that aside, Honestly we haven't seen anyone from the first arc in the 5 year skip. All we have seen are the Zahard princesses and Baam. maybe that implicates something? 
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Jun 21, 2012 19:23
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So I just found out the author did a Maplestory/Tower of God crossover for Maplestory's 9th anniversary. It's obviously non-canon by the way. EDIT: Forgot SA doesn't like 'shack so just go to This Page and go the images from there instead. It takes place post-timeskip, so not sure if those are supposed to be Rak, Koon and Androssi's post-timeskip appearances or what. Androssi has her shields back which make it even more confusing. RatHat fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Jun 21, 2012 |
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Jun 21, 2012 19:54
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Cbouncerrun posted:So I just found out the author did a Maplestory/Tower of God crossover for Maplestory's 9th anniversary. It's obviously non-canon by the way. If anyone is interested in actually reading this, quote the post. Standard code:
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Jun 21, 2012 23:06
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Ah, forgot the site did that. Just go to This Page and then go to the 'shack images from there.
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Jun 21, 2012 23:26
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Why did I read that?
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Jun 22, 2012 03:21
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not a bad vignette taken at art value.
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Jun 22, 2012 04:29
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I am curious if there is any information about SIU asking for donations? I'd gladly give  in hopes of either longer chapters or faster releases as well as thanks for all the previous great strips.
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Jun 27, 2012 07:39
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I'm pretty sure he gets paid for doing the webcomic, and the length of a chapter probably isn't something he decides.
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Jun 27, 2012 07:45
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Cbouncerrun posted:I'm pretty sure he gets paid for doing the webcomic, and the length of a chapter probably isn't something he decides. Yes, he is a professional that gets paid by Naver, the Korean web portal that hosts the comic. I did a small write-up on this in the Korean manwha thread; the short and skinny of it is that you should use the goo.gl links that are usually provided in the beginning of each translated chapter and go give a pageview to the original, Korean version of the webcomic at it's native site, Naver's webcomic portal. It's a simple and effective way of helping the professional that created the comic. EDIT: Replaced link to a link to Tower of God's page. pnumoman fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Jun 27, 2012 |
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Jun 27, 2012 16:48
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Thank you for the information and now I'll just have to work my way through all of the chapters  but well worth it.
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Jun 28, 2012 07:35
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Oh god the raws of the next chapter has me pumped. I cant wait 
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Jun 28, 2012 17:48
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zerosix posted:Oh god the raws of the next chapter has me pumped. I cant wait I've learned the hard way to merely click so SIU gets the money and then wait, otherwise i'll drool from anticipation.
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Jun 28, 2012 18:03
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Einander posted:If anyone is interested in actually reading this, quote the post. Standard imageshanty links not working, Cool little crossover though nothing important happens just cameo appearances. Hell I'm just glad to see Mangator has not been forgotten!
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Jun 30, 2012 05:40
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new translated strip by company
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Jul 1, 2012 01:16
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At last! ToG is about the only media I actually consume as it comes out these days. Anyway, Horyang specifically referencing Viole's creepy lobster exoskeleton ability is pretty interesting. He seemed to have some idea of what it was back when it was first used too.
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Jul 1, 2012 02:37
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So was the team victory at the end of this chapter a result of Baam being moved by Wangnan's words and deliberately giving them the last room, or was there some kind of trickery involved?
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Jul 1, 2012 23:06
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Ghost of Babyhead posted:So was the team victory at the end of this chapter a result of Baam being moved by Wangnan's words and deliberately giving them the last room, or was there some kind of trickery involved? Baam knew which connector was his, since he opened his door, but even more than that, it says which connector is.. connected when they're plugged in. Finally - if Baam wanted to pass by himself, he would've had to hit the red button, the team victory was only possible with the blue button. Baam knew. I suspect Wangnan thought he tricked him, though.
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Jul 1, 2012 23:19
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And would you just look at this early chapter release. It's a pretty satisfying conclusion, I'd say. There's a 1 week break though. So that's a bummer.
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Jul 3, 2012 05:00
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FUG seems to have their fingers in a lot of pies. Probably more than most realize.
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Jul 3, 2012 09:52
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I don't get quite a few things in the chapter. Who's the general examiner? Is he a new character? Is his position like the yellow-hair tea drinking guy/girl from the last section and the baseball guy is like the angry red-haired regular? FUG is the organization that Baam/Viole's a part of right? Did they intentionally set it up so that Wangnan would meet with him and get passed? Did Baam know which connector he plugged in? I thought that he did, but this chapter explicitly said he got tricked (thought it might be unreliable narrator?)
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Jul 3, 2012 13:14
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pinegala posted:I don't get quite a few things in the chapter. He was shown in an earlier chapter, but he's basically in charge of all the testing. So yeah he's pretty much in the same position as the tea guy.
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Jul 3, 2012 13:25
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pinegala posted:I don't get quite a few things in the chapter. I would say we also don't know about this. The narration was on Wagnan's part, who isn't omniscient. He planned on that happening, but we don't know whether Viole knew or not. I wouldn't be surprised if he did know, since he seems to be interested in Wagnan's ideals. Based on what Wagnan spoke about, like the open sky for everyone, I imagine that resonated a bit with Viole/Baam given his initial reasons for climbing the tower - seeing the open sky with Rachel.
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Jul 3, 2012 21:08
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Do people think that seeing the sky is climbing the tower as is known or actually climbing to the top? In case anyone hasn't read the notes about it the floors that are climbed typically aren't the whole tower but that the floor guardians above are incredibly powerful and dangerous and don't like people on their floors
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Jul 3, 2012 21:19
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I think climbing the tower in this universe is akin to joining the military in ours. It's ridiculously hard and dangerous, but if you can do it, you earn respect and get special privileges. Even if you don't make it to the top, you're much better off than most people who don't even try. Also of note is that lifespans tend to be several hundred years in the tower on average, so "securing your future" would be kind of a big deal to those at the bottom of society.
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Jul 3, 2012 23:05
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quote:Do people think that seeing the sky is climbing the tower as is known or actually climbing to the top? In case anyone hasn't read the notes about it the floors that are climbed typically aren't the whole tower but that the floor guardians above are incredibly powerful and dangerous and don't like people on their floors Climbing the Tower is a pretty broad metaphor for success (material and/or spiritual). The sky is pretty straightforwardly an image of existence after the removal of all external barriers to human potential. So the sky is sort of being used to mean both, it's the goal and the possibility of real movement towards that goal. Wagnan states that he wants to depose Zahard in order to build a society that facilitates, or at least does not impede, human achievement. His motivation isn't realization of human potential, however. A darwinistic society can still achieve that, although this one has clearly stagnated. His goal is allowing humans to strive for success without destroying each other and therefor the affective bonds that connect individuals and ultimately allow society to exist. Which is exactly what Baam had taken from him. Edit: The Tower is also an MMO. Zahard was the hero of a Journey to the West-style mythic narrative of the first organized group to "play the game." Except that they got to the end of the newbie floors (where the guardians are friendly), freaked out, and set up a society to limit access to the first level at which the "game" actually begins tracking player status and started living off the backs of the other players. Hodgepodge fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Jul 4, 2012 |
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Jul 4, 2012 18:30
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Where exactly does it say nobody's ever actually reached the top of the tower? I could have sworn it said all rankers are people who've reached the top.
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Jul 4, 2012 22:48
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Sindai posted:Where exactly does it say nobody's ever actually reached the top of the tower? I could have sworn it said all rankers are people who've reached the top. Well there are a few mentions, but some background first: 'Ranks' are given to those who reach the 134th floor - there is a literal ranking committee of sorts (랭킹 관리국, Raengking Gwahnligook; or "Ranking Affairs Bureau") that determines how strong you are compared to others from your climb to the top. The top 1% of people to climb to the 134th floor are the "High Rankers". I don't believe ranks can change once you reach the top - if you were ranked 4th, the only way for your rank to change is for someone new to be ranked 1st through 4th - pushing your rank down by 1. That's important because only High Rankers are given the privilege of taking the 135th floor test. In this sense I suppose that the act of being 'ranked' is the 134th test. Anyway, we know 134 isn't the top because of various blog posts - what we know so far is conveniently collected here. e: Thinking about it, I suppose you could move up in ranking by killing those ahead of you. ee: Also, because they have to take the test from the Guardian as opposed to from the Zahard testing "protocol" of sorts - only Irregulars are eligible in the first place. Sarcophallus fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Jul 4, 2012 |
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Jul 4, 2012 23:15
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Sarcophallus posted:Well there are a few mentions, but some background first: 'Ranks' are given to those who reach the 134th floor - there is a literal ranking committee of sorts (랭킹 관리국, Raengking Gwahnligook; or "Ranking Affairs Bureau") that determines how strong you are compared to others from your climb to the top. The top 1% of people to climb to the 134th floor are the "High Rankers". I don't believe ranks can change once you reach the top - if you were ranked 4th, the only way for your rank to change is for someone new to be ranked 1st through 4th - pushing your rank down by 1. 100th floor is the floor where ranking starts, and people can change their ranking once ranked.
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Jul 5, 2012 04:20
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Sindai posted:Where exactly does it say nobody's ever actually reached the top of the tower? I could have sworn it said all rankers are people who've reached the top. No one has completed the Floor 135 and up Guardian tests yet.
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Jul 5, 2012 13:11
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The Company version is up. Even if you already read it, the note from SIU they translated and included is interesting. Something I didn't notice the first time I read. I was randomly looking through the Tower of God wiki a while back, and I was reminded that Yu Han Sung (instant coffee guy, the test director for floor 2) has the nickname of 'Submerged Fish.' The 20th floor test director was talking to Submerged Fish, which means that Augustus and this floor's events were part of that conspiracy. So apparently Baam joining with FUG as Viole was planned. Headon being a part of the conspiracy is an even bigger thing now, since he's one of the Tower's more powerful Guardians and the one who selects Regulars.
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Jul 5, 2012 21:21
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The full epilogue was way better than that short one! KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
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Jul 5, 2012 22:08
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Socks and sandals Baam? Really? Get the gently caress out of my tower...
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Jul 6, 2012 00:50
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The Holy Queef posted:The full epilogue was way better than that short one!
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Jul 6, 2012 02:10
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I was't sure if that was Koon or not either, but the authors notes at the end seem to confirm it.
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Jul 6, 2012 02:13
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On another note, does anyone else think FUG is setting Baam up as a figurehead of opposition to the current regime? It seemed like they wanted him to fight a regular and come out at least okay, so they set him up against one who they knew was too softhearted and rational to kill him. Now the word is out that he actually "beat" a Ranker. And he's been divorced from the stigma of being an Irregular (who people think of as dangerous and foreign), and instead aligned with a more familiar source of opposition to the social order. The goal from FUG's point of view, is demonstrating that someone is able to defy the system and make people start to actively think in those terms.
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